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Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill: Clause 1 - Introduction (18 Mar 2024)

Alison Thewliss: ...and our domestic courts while telling Rwanda that it must keep to its obligations; it is not tough enough for the far-right of the Tory party but too harsh for the more reasonable wing. It is a circus. It is a deflection from a broken Home Office that cannot even get the basics right—that is beset by delays, under investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office and wasting money...

Thames Water: Contingency Plans (15 Mar 2024)

Sarah Olney: ..., more than 1,200 homes in Richmond were left without central heating or hot water for five days when water from a burst pipe ingressed the gas network. Last year, a burst water main on the Manor Circus roundabout went unattended for days, delaying the completion of roadworks that were causing chaos in the area. My residents in north Kingston have had to make their peace with constant...

Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill (15 Mar 2024)

Louie French: ...and kittens with Lucy’s law. We have also introduced tougher sentencing for animal cruelty, an issue that many of my constituents are passionate about. We have banned the use of wild animals in circuses, and introduced one of the toughest bans in the world on ivory sales. However, we can and must go further. Since being elected to this place, strengthening animal welfare protections has...

Parents and Carers of Infants: Support (12 Mar 2024)

Tim Loughton: That is absolutely right. We had children’s centres to an extent; we must have family hubs to a much larger extent. We need a sort of Piccadilly Circus of different professionals coming together, sharing information and nominating who will act for a particular family to make sure that the job is done and that a family in need does not fall foul of memos circulating between different...

Business and Trade: Topical Questions ( 7 Mar 2024)

Liam Byrne: The Secretary of State will have seen the recommendations that our Committee set out this morning for ending the circus of the Post Office administration of the redress schemes for victims of the Horizon scandal. I know that she takes this incredibly seriously and so I know that she will study our cross-party recommendations for the new legislation that she is about to bring before the House....

Scotland: Cost of Living ( 6 Mar 2024)

Ian Murray: ...Conservatives threatened to resign last night on potentially another U-turn from the Chancellor on the windfall tax. Does the Minister accept that the best thing to happen now would be for this circus to be brought for an end and for the Prime Minister to call the election?

Post Office Board and Governance (28 Feb 2024)

Kirsten Oswald: ..., who have experienced the most recent post office closures in East Renfrewshire, or the brilliant postmasters operating locally, none of them deserves this mess. This is turning into a regrettable circus to all looking in from the outside. What assurances can the Minister give me today that that will not be allowed to divert or distract from a genuine focus on the swiftest possible...

Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2023 - Motion to Approve: Amendment to the Motion (27 Feb 2024)

Baroness Fookes: ...will ensure that animals continue to be kept ad infinitum. It is a great puzzle to me. I am equally puzzled by the point that exhibitions will be allowed. What exhibitions? That sounds more like a circus to me. What possible reason can there be to have animals in exhibitions? It is absolutely absurd. I am sorry to be so firm with my noble friend, but I do not like it and I do not approve....

Israel and Gaza (27 Feb 2024)

Tobias Ellwood: ...the Minister—as he has alluded to in his remarks—to quietly bring together the Opposition parties at No. 10 to see whether a consensus line can be agreed to avoid this House returning to the circus we saw last week.

Finance Bill - Second Reading (and remaining stages) (21 Feb 2024)

Lord Sikka: ...service, have declined from 1,417 in 2018-19 to only 627 in 2022-23. This reduces any faith in the measures contained in Part 3 of the Bill. Tax policy for the last 14 years has become a circus under this Government. There is no sensible debate of what or who ought to be taxed, and at what rate, to shape what kind of society. Special low tax rates are enacted for the rich because they fund...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Legislation (22 Jan 2024)

Lord Norton of Louth: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to undertake post-legislative review of (1) the Ivory Act 2018, (2) the Wild Animals in Circuses Act 2019, (3) the Agriculture Act 2020, and (4) the Fisheries Act 2020, in line with the policy of reviewing Acts three to five years after enactment.

Post Office (Horizon System) Compensation Bill - Second Reading (and remaining stages) (16 Jan 2024)

Baroness Chakrabarti: ...artificial intelligence, which my noble friend Lord Browne of Ladyton has been raising concerns about in your Lordships’ House, and must learn, remember and reflect on even after this particular circus has left town—and, quite possibly, systematic corruption and cover-up motivated by greed. Some noble Lords who have stopped me in the Corridor in the days since our last discussion have...

Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill: Clause 1 - Prohibition of export of livestock for slaughter (15 Jan 2024)

Mark Spencer: ...-grazing and abandonment. We have introduced new community order powers to address dog issues. We have provided valuable new protections for wild animals, and have banned wild animals in travelling circuses. We have passed the Ivory Act 2018, including one of the toughest bans on elephant ivory sales—[Interruption.] I have a long way to go yet. We have given the police additional powers...

Finance Bill: Clause 25 - Rebate on heavy oil and certain bioblends used for heating (10 Jan 2024)

Tulip Siddiq: ...year. The shock that a Government measure designed to provide “legal certainty and stability” has raised more questions than answers has slightly worn off for those of us obliged to follow the circus on the Government Benches on a daily basis. To conclude, we will not oppose the two clauses, but the detail of the proposals continues to raise questions about the competence of the...

Christmas, Christianity and Communities — [Dame Maria Miller in the Chair] (19 Dec 2023)

Martin Vickers: ...Christmas traditions. I am old enough to remember a time when there were not hundreds of TV channels, and squeezed in after the Queen’s speech was “Top of the Pops” and Billy Smart’s circus, and then the Monopoly board came out before Morecambe and Wise came on. For our churches, Christmas is an opportunity when the pews are much fuller than usual. There are carol services,...

Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill (18 Dec 2023)

Steve Barclay: ...all vertebrates and some invertebrates via the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. We brought into force the ivory ban, one of the world’s toughest bans on ivory sales, and the Wild Animals in Circuses Act 2019 prohibits travelling circuses from using wild animals, in recognition of the intrinsic value of wild animals and the need to respect them. We continue to go further to improve...

Town Centre Safety ( 5 Dec 2023)

Nickie Aiken: ...tube, which has risen more than 50%, fuelled by thefts and robberies. People come to the centre to shop or have a good night out in the night-time economy that we offer in the west end, but Oxford Circus and Leicester Square are among the worst tube stations for theft. That has happened under Sadiq Khan as the police and crime commissioner for London. My hon. Friend the Member for Old...

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Second Reading (28 Nov 2023)

Lord Moylan: ...or find another passenger somewhere. That is an alternative model. Let us imagine 80 of those lined up nose to tail, very safely moving along Piccadilly from Hyde Park Corner up to Piccadilly Circus, each containing an individual passenger—and bang close to each other because it will be very safe, for the reasons I explained. It will be 80 passengers moving up Piccadilly. What is the...

Pedicabs (London) Bill [HL] - Second Reading (22 Nov 2023)

Lord Davies of Gower: ...of the majority. We have all seen news reports of unwitting tourists being charged hundreds of pounds to go from Covent Garden to Leicester Square, or being confronted with a bill from Oxford Circus to Marble Arch that would make that pedicab ride the most expensive transport mode in the UK on a per-mile basis. The consequences are felt not only by visitors but by all who call this city...

2. Business Statement and Announcement (21 Nov 2023)

Sarah Murphy: Over the past couple of months, I've become increasingly concerned to see the nightmarish, overwhelmingly dystopian circus of the UK Conservative Party unravelling in real time. And whilst I'm glad to see the prospect of a UK Labour Government, there remains a very real prospect of a scorched-earth tactic up until then. Chief amongst these, Minister, is the UK Government's desire to give...


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